Love and hate are two relative concepts with Nick Kyrgios. However, the question of necessity is very different and much more important. Nick Kyrgios, between a thousand excesses and a thousand facets, is today more than ever an essential character in the delicate world of tennis.
Why? Because he relies on the most banal regression to infinity. The Australian tennis player, who after the Us Open jumped from one side of Europe to the other without much conviction, said goodbye to the miraculous 2022 season -led by the Wimbledon final- with a fleeting appearance in the company of Thanasi Kokkinakis in Turin.
Upon his arrival in Saudi Arabia for the exhibition tournament to be held from December 8 to 10 (Diryah Tennis Cup, which will also offer the winner an amount close to one million euros), the Australian phenomenon found a way to speak in his first press conference on what has happened in the last twelve months and what, for all intents and purposes, made him “click” to definitively enter the top of the world rankings.
“I had lost my identity on the tennis courts. This year, however, I have shown that I am still one of the best in the world,” he explained, knowingly. Kyrgios has never denied what his goal is: to have fun, to leave his mark, to be a source of inspiration for someone (especially the youngest) and, trivially, to be remembered.
And that is what he wanted to underline even before the very rich exhibition tournament in Saudi Arabia.
Kyrgios is currently in Saudi Arabia
With no beating around the bush, Nick Kyrgios has finally explained the reasons behind him giving the recently concluded Davis Cup a miss.
“Maybe if Australia embraced me a little bit more, I would play for it and bring home the trophy,” Kyrgios said. “At this point of my career, I’ll always do what’s best for me. I can travel around the world playing exhibitions around this time of year for six figures.
I feel I put myself in that position, so it’s an easy one for me. I’ll easily take time with my family and my girlfriend and enjoy experiences around the world and earn that type of money rather than playing a week away in something where I wouldn’t be able to be with my girlfriend and I’m not getting paid that well,” he added. “That doesn’t really make sense to me and my progression as an athlete”.
